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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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The function that is related with decimal point number in LE customization chart.

In LE web GUI, there are some sample charts provided by IBM. Specially, in table chart, we can see decimal point number as like "xx.yy". But, If we tried to make customization chart and express some value as like run_time, its value is so long dec...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Not under consideration

can we make file connector to read file only in directory with name matched to the wildcard pattern

The File connector is unable to read expected partitions data : Expected to read data from all partitions excluding part_num=0, but it is reading data from part_num=1, part_num=10, part_num=11, part_num=12 and part_num=2 only. Expected Format as p...
almost 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Allow escaping of data class column regex expressions

Current SQL Server environment does not allow multi-byte unicode characters. When IA/IGC data classes are installed out of the box, the multibyte characters in the regex are lost and replaced by question marks. This causes the column analysis to c...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

User permission to view Analytics for specific APIs only(API Connect)

The reference is taken from API Connect 2018 4.1.8 VMWARE version. Currently a user who is logged in to API Manager can view Analytics data for all APIs. So a user would be knowing the details of all the transaction. So certain users should be ab...
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

To be able to load comment data

The client would like to extract the comment from ERP system and load into Cognos Controller without manually input.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

Customer specific Kafka resource

Kafka is supported by MDM, but you're not able to create and use you own Kafka resource. You now have to use one of the OOTB resources. We want to be able to split the type of data to be send to different Kafka endpoints.
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Physical MDM Suspect Duplicates improvements

Product is Data stewardship UI System : Physical MDMSuspected Duplicate Process Application Description : issue 1 - Cannot Freeze the ID, Name etc. in preview collapse screen. These to be visible at all times. And scroll bar to be available at the...
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration

Additional company locales Moldavian ro_MD and Georgian ka_GE

Our customers want new locales of company attributes (Moldavian ro_MD and Georgian ka_GE). One can observe a full locales set at "Data Model Manager -> Security -> Company Attributes" screen. On the top section of company setup there are 2 s...
almost 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Future consideration

Setting Seeds

I want to do model testing while always drawing the same training data with the help of a random variable (e.g. command NAIVEBAYES). It is important to always produce the same numbers. In SPSS I can do it with SET but there are pitfalls the user m...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Making the data items in visualization (columns, rows, length, x-axis, y-axis,...) optional not mandatory

Remove the block on having some items in visualization mandatory, making them more optional and recommended like other BI tools to improve the user experience when creating objects and making them more udnerstandable.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration